People
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Thomas Pogge Leitner Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science |
Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale. Pogge is... |
Current Fellows
Ashok Acharya 2012-2013 |
Ashok Acharya is Professor of Political Science and leads the Program on Global Justice at the Delhi School of Transnational Affairs, University of Delhi. He was Henry Hart Rice Visiting Associate... |
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Najid Ahmad 2020 |
Najid Ahmad’s research focuses on sustainable development, poverty, environmental economics, global warming and climate change. He holds a PhD degree in economics and is... |
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David Álvarez García 2008-2010 |
David Álvarez García received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) with a dissertation on cosmopolitan and international justice. Before coming to Yale he... |
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Michal Apollo |
Michal Apollo is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, a Fellow of Yale University’s Global Justice Program, New Haven, USA, a... |
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Parwez Besmel |
Parwez Besmel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. Parwez holds a Ph.D. in Politics and International Affairs. His research... |
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Lisa Biersay |
Lisa Biersay is an Atrocity Crimes Prosecutor, specializing in International Criminal Law and Investigations. For the last 13 years, she worked with the United Nations to prosecute a broad... |
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Tendayi Bloom Postdoctoral Associate in the MacMillan Center |
Tendayi Bloom is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Global Justice Program at Yale. Her research explores the relationship of individual noncitizens with States. She also looks at the implications of... |
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Daniele Botti |
Daniele Botti graduated from the University of Milan (Italy) with a thesis on “John Rawls and International Justice: The Law of Peoples and its Philosophical Premises.” He earned a PhD in History... |
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Alexandra Bregman |
Alexandra Bregman is a freelance art writer and the author of The Bouvier Affair: A True Story, originated from her 2016 Master of Arts in... |
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Paula Casal |
Paula Casal is a Professor at ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) and at Universitat Pompeu Fabra’s Law Department, in Barcelona. She was a lecturer (and later Reader) at... |
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Maria Ginevra Cattaneo 2013 |
Maria Ginevra Cattaneo acts as an attorney in Milano and works on civil and commercial law, particularly on intellectual property law. She completed her PhD in Law and Technologies at the... |
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Sachin Chaturvedi 2009-2010 |
Sachin Chaturvedi is Director General at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a New Delhi-based autonomous Think-Tank. He was also a Global Justice Fellow at the... |
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Charles Chilufya |
Charles Chilufya is a business economist, whose Master of Research at ESADE Business School in Barcelona focused on reconciling business and society as a way of articulating the role of business... |
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Horman Chitonge |
Horman Chitonge is professor at the Centre for African Studies, and research associate at PRISM, School of Economics, University of Cape Town (UCT). He is a vising fellow at the... |
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Rohan Clarke |
Dr Rohan Clarke is a Jamaican diplomat and international consultant on illicit finance. He received his Ph.D. from Jesus College, University of Cambridge, as a Commonwealth (Cambridge) Scholar.... |
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Antonio Davila |
Antonio Dávila is a Venezuelan Professor in political theory and philosophy at the Pontifical Bolivarian University (Colombia), board member of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), and... |
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Özlem Denli |
Özlem Denli received her Ph.D in Political Science and International Relations from Oslo University (Norway). Her teaching and research focus on political philosophy, history of political... |
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Farsan Ghassim 2013-2015 |
Farsan Ghassim received a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). During his undergraduate studies, he interned with a Latin... |
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Joy Gordon 2010-2011 |
Joy Gordon is Professor of Political Philosophy at Fairfield University. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. Her areas of research... |
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James S. Henry |
James S. Henry is a leading economist, attorney, consultant, and investigative journalist, who has written and spoken widely on the problems of tax justice and development finance. He can be... |
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Aidan Hollis |
Aidan Hollis is Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary, and President of Incentives for Global Health. Hollis studied at Cambridge University and the University of Toronto, where he... |
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Dev Kar |
Dr. Dev Kar is the Chief Economist at Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a think tank and advocacy group in Washington DC. Dev has... |
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Francis Karugu |
Francis Karugu is an international development specialist with a mainstay in political economy analysis, development finance, impact assessment (monitoring and evaluation), market systems, and... |
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Sebastian Kistler |
Sebastian Kistler works in a research project about Bioeconomy and Social Transformation funded by the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany). He was a Substitute Professor... |
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Dave Levin |
Dave Levin is the Founder and Executive Director of Refugee Open Ware (ROW). He is a social entrepreneur and impact investor specializing in the use of advanced technology to help those... |
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Yuke Li |
Yuke Li earned her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Peking University in 2011 and completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at Yale University in 2018,... |
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David Lighton |
David Lighton is an entrepreneur, former World Bank staff member, and expert on financial inclusion. He is the Founder and CEO of Diameter Pay, a fintech company improving access to the global... |
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Mihai Lupu |
Having received his MA in history from Central European University with a thesis of the dynamic of the Communist Party School in Romania and its influence in forming the administrative and... |
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Tienmu Ma 2011-2013 |
Tienmu Ma is a JD/PhD candidate at Yale Law School and the New York University Department of Philosophy. He has broad interests in legal and political philosophy, ranging from global justice to... |
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Xiaoyan Ma 2016-2017 |
Xiaoyan Ma is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing, visiting the Global Justice Program in 2016-17. She received her PhD at Nankai University... |
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Siphosami Malunga |
Siphosami Malunga holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Witwatersrand. He is currently Programs Director at Open Society Africa. He was previously Executive Director of the... |
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Max Alexander Matthey |
Max Alexander Matthey is passionate about incentive-setting for the major global challenges of our century:
During his graduate Master studies in Philosophy, Politics... |
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Krishen Mehta |
Krishen Mehta is a writer, teacher, and speaker on issues of global tax justice. Prior to making tax justice his main focus, he was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and served in their... |
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Darius Meier |
Darius Meier is a Swiss-Indian economist and ethicist with a research focus on human labor automation as part of his PhD at University of Lucerne (Institute of Social Ethics ISE) and Yale... |
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Zorka Milin |
Zorka Milin is a senior legal advisor with Global Witness, working to improve transparency and... |
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Pahlaj Moolio |
Pahlaj Moolio is a professor and dean for Research and Development Office at the LSi Business School, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Before joining LSI Business School, he served as an associate dean and... |
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Vanessa Neumann |
President and founder of Asymmetrica, a Latin... |
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Zeke Ngcobo |
Zeke Ngcobo has a Master’s in Public Health which she received at Sahmyook University in Seoul, South Korea. She interned for Sahmyook Hands, an initiative connected to the Thailand Health... |
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Shmuel Nili 2012-2016 |
Shmuel (Shmulik) Nili is a Ph.D. student in political theory at Yale. His core research revolves around questions of global justice, mainly the democratic treatment of severely oppressive regimes... |
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María Julia Ochoa Jiménez |
María Julia Ochoa Jiménez is Professor of Private International Law at the University of Antioquia (Colombia). She is from Venezuela and holds a PhD in international law from the University of... |
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Gorik Ooms 2009-2010 |
Gorik Ooms is a human rights lawyer, graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1989. He is a Global Justice Fellow for the 2009–2010 academic year. During most of his professional career... |
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Tobias Orthen |
Tobias Orthen works as a research associate at FAW/n in Ulm and has recently handed in his PhD thesis at the University of Ulm. His research focuses on the role rich top emitters and the private... |
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Chia-Yun Po |
Chia-Yun Po is a fellow at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Her academic interests include Russia, China, human rights law, and corporate governance. She... |
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Jakob Schwab |
Jakob Schwab is an economist and researcher at the German Development Institute (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, GDI/DIE). He has received his Ph.D. jointly from the Johannes Gutenberg... |
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Khadija Sharife |
Based in South Africa, Khadija Sharife (LLM) is an award-winning investigative journalist and senior editor for Africa at Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (... |
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Esther Shubert |
Esther Shubert is a Ph.D student in the philosophy department at Yale University. Her research interests are in the area of global justice, with a primary focus on issues of financial integrity... |
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Jaap Spier Sr. Global Justice Fellow |
Jaap Spier (1950) graduated from Erasmus University (Rotterdam) 1973, has been attorney at the Bar of Rotterdam until 1977, lecturer of private law at Leyden University (1977 – 1981) and company... |
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Sebastien Tabash |
Sebastien Tabash graduated from Georgetown University (2023) studying Government and History with a focus on the Middle East and North African regions. His research interests include democratic... |
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Jami Taylor |
Jami Taylor is Vice President for Corporate Affairs at Protagonist Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company in California. Previously she worked for a number of years as a Senior Director for... |
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Dominic Thomas-James |
Dr Dominic Thomas-James became a Fellow of Yale University’s Global Justice Program in 2020. He earned his Ph.D. from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge... |
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Halit Ünver |
Halit Ünver is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Frankfurt a.M./Germany. He is an advisor for digital... |
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Diana Velica |
Diana Velica is leading the AI and Global Justice initiative, an interdisciplinary endeavor with a mission of harnessing AI to reduce disparities, improve access to healthcare, education, new... |
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Matheus de Vilhena Moraes |
Matheus de Vilhena Moraes is a law student at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), located in the city of Franca, São Paulo, Brazil. His research... |
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Kate Wharton |
Kate Wharton is the Chief Operating Officer at Refugee Open Ware (ROW). She is an international development consultant and social intrapreneur. With four years in Deloitte... |
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Xiangdong Xu |
Xiangdong Xu is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Zhejiang University, and Director of the Zhejiang University Center for Human Values. Before coming to... |
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Matti Ylönen |
Matti Ylönen is a researcher based in Helsinki, Finland, and he spent year 2016 as a visiting Fulbright-Schuman grantee at the Global Justice Program. Having followed tax... |